InstantWP

Free WordPress Niche Themes For The Top Ten Blog Niches!!

To say thanks to all the users of Instant WordPress - ten brand new, unique and FREE WordPress themes specially designed for the ten top blog niches!

The following niches are provided:

• Weight Loss and Dieting Niche
  
• Relationship Niche
  
• Psychology and Self-Help Niche
  
• Muscle Training, Gym and Fitness Niche
  
• Learning a Foreign Language Niche
  
• Internet Business Niche
  
• Give Up Smoking Niche
  
• Financial Advice and Products Niche
  
• Dog / Pet Training and Grooming Niche
  
• Credit Repair and Credit Problems Niche

For more information - see the Free Theme Page

Instant WordPress 3.3 Released!

Instant WordPress 3.3 has been released to the general public after being successfully rolled out to existing customers.

This release has exactly the same functionality as before, but the web server system underneath has been updated with the following software:

• WordPress 2.8.6
• Apache/2.2.11 (Win32)
• PHP/5.2.10

Get it now!

Get Instant WordPress for FREE

Now there is more than one way to get the three click WordPress install!

Instant WordPress is now available for FREE through Trialpay.

You just choose an offer from one of Trialpay's many partners and you will get the download link for Instant WordPress emailed to you.

Of course, you still get the same great support and guarantee :)

Instant WordPress Testimonials

Below are some of the recent testimonials (which are completely voluntary!) from users who bought Instant WordPress:

Just bought and installed this...

Wonderful tool for exploring and learning Wordpress, testing and previewing any

plugins and themes sitting on your hard drive you haven't looked at yet...

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I finally got the chance to play around with this program this weekend and as a complete newbie, this is a very cool program...

... The best way for kids to learn is to play with things and the best way to learn Wordpress is to sit down and just play with it - no need to worry about mistakes or creating fatal errors...

...The control panel is easy to use and everything is pointed out clearly, so this would be a good product for both newbies and vets alike, though it is obviously more newbie friendly. But now I can manage my way around themes and plugins without much trouble at all, and I expect with Seamus' program it won't be long at all before I can finally start that blog I've always been dreaming about.

Thanks again for the opportunity Seamus!

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I just bought InstantWP and now I am playing with the 

software. It's a good job you have done.

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Great software!

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Awesome ... I have been looking out for this tool for quite a while ... saves me the trouble of setting up a 'test' online WP installation each time I wanted to test a new theme.

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Cool software Seamus. 

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Couldn't pass up on this. I develop WP plugins, so the idea of having an entire development platform on a USB key is a dream come true!

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Please see here for the original Warrior Forum post where you can see the comments.

Free - A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development!

The good people at WPShout.com have just released a free ebook entitled 'A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development'. 

This ebook is based on a series of postings from WPShout.com covering the following:

• Introduction, the fundamentals of WordPress theme development
• The index.php and style.css files: the most important parts of any theme.
• The header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files.
• The single.php file: the file that handles posts.
• The archive.php, home.php and functions.php files and a wrap up.

The whole ebook is available to download here.

Warrior Special Offer on Instant WordPress

For those who may not know, the Warriors Forum is one of the best places to find out what is happening in the world of Internet Marketing. You get everybody there from the guru to the newbies and all manner of information.

The Warriors Special Offer section lists all sort of weird and wonderful bargains that may be of interest to someone in the Internet Marketing area. I have justed created a special offer for Instant WordPress, so now you can save $20.00 off the purchase price!

Bonus - Instant WordPress Extra pack

Well worth buying since once you buy your copy, you will be able to download the Instant WordPress Extra pack which has the following goodies....

- Hundreds of pages of the WordPress Codex Documentation Website available to read offline

- 6 WordPress Google Adsense Enabled Themes

- 10 Essential WordPress Plugins that every WordPress site should use

- Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button 
- Akismet 
- All in One SEO Pack 
- Contact Form 7 
- Google XML Sitemaps 
- SEO Automatic WP_CORE_TWEAKS 
- SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam 
- Sociable 
- WordPress Related Posts Plugin 
- WP Security Scan

- 26 WordPress Magazine Themes for creating a stunning WordPress experience

- 50 Advanced WordPress Themes all with theme options to tweak

- 137 Useful WordPress Plugins including:

- 3 WordPress Advertising Plugins
- 5 WordPress Affiliate Link Cloaking Plugins
- 13 WordPress Amazon Plugins
- 3 WordPress Cache Plugins
- 4 WordPress Ebay Plugins
- 11 WordPress Facebook Plugins
- 11 WordPress Google Adsense Plugins
- 3 WordPress Google Analytics Plugins
- 7 WordPress Keyword Plugins
- 15 WordPress RSS Plugins
- 22 WordPress SEO Plugins
- 5 WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins
- 10 WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins
- 14 WordPress Twitter Plugins
- 11 WordPress YouTube Plugins

Get it while the offer is open!

New links page for WordPress developers

I have just added a new links page with links that are very useful for WordPress developers.

If you know of any other link that should appear here, let me know by emailing me at support [at] instantwp.com.

Over 1000 WordPress themes to choose from!

As pointed out on WPTavern today, the WordPress theme repository now has over 1000 themes (or 1004 themes and 8,173,818 downloads to be precise).

These themes are all available for download and testing and don't forget you can now try these themes directly from within your WordPress installation without downloading anything.

If you look at the screenshot below from the WordPress admin backend running in Instant WordPress, you can see that below the 'Appearance' menu item on the right, there is an 'Add New Themes' item.

Clicking on this will allow give you the following options:

• Search - this allows you to search the the WordPress theme repository
• Upload - install a theme from a downloaded zip file
• Featured - view themes that are currently being featured in the the WordPress theme repository
• Newest - view the newest themes in the WordPress theme repository
• Recently Updated - view the recntly updated themes in the WordPress theme repository

This means that you can view and try all 1000 themes without leaving your WordPress installation. Nice!

What you need to know to develop a WordPress plugin

There are a few things you might find helpful to understand before attempting WordPress plugin development. 

I suggest having a good read through the following resources as this will all help the apprentice WordPress developer...

• Firstly you need basic PHP and perhaps a little MySQL. The PHP tutorial at W3Schools will help here as will the PHP / MySQL lessons they have.

• You then need to delve a little under the hood of WordPress and get your head around the following:
  • How the whole WordPress world is centered around the WordPress Loop
  • Breaking a site up with WordPress Template tags and the Template Hierarchy
  • Have a look through the WordPress Function Reference so you don't reinvent the wheel
• The next thing to do is to understand the idea behind the Hooks, Actions and Filters of the WordPress Plugin API

• Read the Writing a Plugin guide

• The next thing to look at might be the WordPress coding standards and then to take a look the code behind a simple plugin.

That should keep even the most extreme beginner busy!

Great free resources for learning WordPress Theme Development

There are some great free resources for learning WordPress theme development out there.

This is a list of the best I have discovered...

On the WordPress Codex - WordPress Lessons the following is worth reading...  

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout
• http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

And not forgetting the mother of all checklists!

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development_Checklist

Smashing Magazine have a great article on WordPress Theme Frameworks...

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/27/wordpress-theme-development-frameworks/

WPShout have a great series of posts on a beginners guide to WordPress theme development...

• http://wpshout.com/a-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-theme-development/

How about 8 tips for WordPress theme developers from the impressive James Whittaker?

• http://jameswhittaker.com/journal/8-top-tips-for-wordpress-theme-development/

And don't forget - Instant WordPress is also a very useful tool to consider :)